Jogging in the Dunes
After a day at work, it was such a lovely evening that I just couldn’t resist a nice easy jog through the dunes. So easy in fact that I even stopped to take some photos.
Author: Alan Cole
New Trees
Anna recently drew my attention to a post on the ‘Make Room for Nature’ Facebook Group saying: Spent a lovely day off taking Woodland Trust Cymru and Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust staff around a few of last year’s tree-planting sites If you’d like anything from 1 to 300 native trees to help tackle climate change and...
A Smug Little Ride
Having missed a windsurf session on Saturday, it was time to get out in the hills for a ride. Colin had mentioned it to me in the week so I was expecting to head out with him and Steve. However, Colin went a little quiet on the subject as the weekend approached so it ended...
Christmas Lights
I know, I know, it’s still November – mentioning Christmas on my blog should be illegal. Don’t worry, we haven’t gone mad and put up the Christmas lights too early. However, we had an evening in Aberystwyth on Saturday for the turning on of the lights there. We were there because Anna was playing in...
Robot Hibernation
It’s that time of year again to hibernation Harriet and Hector our robot lawn mowers. Once again they’ve been doing a sterling job whatever the weather. The mild autumn means they’ve been out a little longer than expected as the grass has still been growing. It’s getting cooler now though, the days are short and...
Bonsai Seedlings
I don’t think I can quite call these bonsai trees yet, but I’m quite impressed with how well they’ve grown. They were all grown from seeds that came from a bonsai seed kit that Morgan bought me for Christmas last year. The seeds were labelled as ‘mixed bonsai’ which didn’t give me much confidence. I...
White-Water Kayaking Keepsakes
It may have been a week ago that I was white-water kayaking in the Lake District, but I do have some keepsakes from the trip. The best of which requires the sharing of a photo of my upper thigh – not quite my bum you’ll be pleased to hear! Impressive hey – fortunately it’s not...
Aber Kayakers Lake District Trip
Having now kayaked on 3 different rivers in my life (the Dee at Mile End Mill, the lower Tryweryn and the Teifi at Llandysul) I was beginning to feel like an actual kayaker. Time therefore to join the Aber Kayakers on a trip to the Lake District to paddle 4 more rivers. Doing so would...
Form Swim Goggles
Swimming Goggles with a heads-up display, Bluetooth connectivity, live metrics and automatic interval detection – whatever next! Yep, smart swim goggles are here and they’re better than I was expecting. The Form Swim Goggles have all of this and more. They work well and are actually useful rather than just a gimmick. I wasn’t sure...
A Year of Solar
We’ve had just about a year of solar generation now. Time to take a look at the stats. That’s easy to do thanks to the solar stats pages I built on this website. The solar generation overview page shows today’s solar generation, along with some charts of generation over the past month, and some totals....
